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Bluetooth and Its Mutation Into a Surveillance Tool

Bluetooth and Its Mutation Into a Surveillance Tool

The almighty Facebook corporation has announced its entrance into the dating industry using bluetooth, facilitating the social network with yet another facet of user-generated data. In the past, this repurposing of the Bluetooth technology as an actor within the...
By on 09/22/19 Comments Off on Bluetooth and Its Mutation Into a Surveillance Tool
Wingman: a true matchmaker or another step away from a social society?

Wingman: a true matchmaker or another step away from a social society?

The typical love stories you mostly hear from your parents or their friends are getting distinct. Nowadays, a lot of the relationships between humans emerge via online dating, and amongst the younger generation, via dating apps such as Tinder,...
By Puck Stallinga on 09/24/18 Comments Off on Wingman: a true matchmaker or another step away from a social society?
Tinder: Readily Combustible Material

Tinder: Readily Combustible Material

“Readily combustible material, such as dry twigs, used to kindle fires.” Tinder is the new application that tells you if the people you like/ want to sleep with like you too. All you have to do is download the...
By Jonne-Marie Bouman on 10/06/13 2

Svetlana wants to meet

This summer I was sitting with a friend on a nice terrace in the city center of L’viv, Urkraine (I marked it on Google Maps, for your interest). The terrace was overlooking the city’s promenade where the local folk...
By Pim van Bree on 09/15/10 1
An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An easy to use web-based application incorporated in the social network site Tagged is described in this article. The "Meet Me" service allows users to find and meet others in a very easy way, and is a nice example...
By Kai Henriquez on 10/06/08 3